Lizard Squad Charging For DDoS Attacks

Lizard Squad is reportedly now offering its DDoS (Distributed Denial-Of-Service) techniques to anyone willing to pay for the privilege. Lizard Stresser, as the new service is called, is essentially a commercial cyberattack whereby people pay the hacker collective to DDoS any target of their choosing.

Xbox One SDK Leaks Online

The Xbox One Software Development Kit (SDK) has been leaked online, leading to the possibility of homebrew apps and mods being released in the future. A group of hackers calling itself H4LT leaked the SDK, tweeting Microsoft to let the company know it had done so.

The Most Pirated Movies Of 2014

The Wolf Of Wall Street tops the list of most pirated movies in 2014, according to Excipio (via Variety). The Martin Scorsese flick just beat out Frozen, with both films being illegally downloaded around 30 million times over the past year.

Free Copies For Nuclear Throne Friends

Everyone who currently owns a copy of Nuclear Throne will get a free copy of the game to give away to a friend. The giveaway will commence tomorrow (Jan. 1, 2015), with the idea being to bring fresh blood into the community to enable the game to grow and evolve.

As Vlambeer, the developer behind Nuclear Throne, explained on YouTube, “We need fresh eyes on the game, people that will still get decimated by Big Bandit and that will complain about the ravens in the scrapyard. We need to know how they feel about Nuclear Throne, and we need your help to reach them.” If it’s free then I’m in. Now, to find a friend who owns the game…

A Look Back At 2014 In GIFs

And finally, with 2014 set to give way to 2015, it’s time to look back at the year that we have all just enjoyed/endured (delete as applicable). And why not do so with a series of GIFs detailing the events of the past 365 days?